Paul Anthony Jones is something of a linguistic phenomenon. He runs the popular @HaggardHawks Twitter feed, blog and YouTube channel, revealing daily word facts to 60,000 engaged followers. His books include: Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities (E&T, 2015), The Accidental Dictionary (E&T, 2016), The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities (E&T, 2017), Around the World in 80 Words (E&T, 2018), as well as several other books on trivia and language. He appears regularly in the media and has contributed to the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries online. He is also a piano teacher and musician, and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.
’As entertaining as it is engrossing’ John Banville
’Enlightening, delightful’ Arthur der Weduwen, author of The
Library
‘Every page will make you stop, think and wonder.’ James Hawes,
author of The Shortest History of England
‘Enthralling, with a riveting “who knew?” moment on nearly every
page.’ Caroline Taggart, author of Humble Pie and Cold Turkey
‘Deft, informative, and packed with fascinating morsels’ Lev
Parikian, author of Light Rains Sometimes Fall ‘[Paul
Anthony Jones is] a first-rate collector of linguistic curios’
Times Literary Supplement
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